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title: Sticks can splinter and stab a dog's mouth or throat, so a ball or r… — Dogs and rabbits in your care · tree and pragmatics
description: Sticks can splinter and stab a dog's mouth or throat, so a ball or rubber toy is safer to throw. Who acts: Sticks, ball toy. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs and rabbits in your care» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dogs and rabbits in your care, sentence 10

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Sticks can splinter and stab a dog's mouth or throat, so a ball or rubber toy is safer to throw.

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**Who acts:** Sticks, ball toy · **What happens:** splinter, stab, be, throw · **To what, where:** mouth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs and rabbits in your care» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sticks, ball toy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:10
# text = Sticks can splinter and stab a dog's mouth or throat, so a ball or rubber toy is safer to throw.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	splinter	splinter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	stab	stab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **splinter** | can | Sticks |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **stab** | infinitive | Sticks *not said here* | a dog's mouth or throat |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | a ball toy |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **throw** | to-infinitive | a ball toy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:10`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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